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7 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

No game is meaningless for Manning at this point in time, nor is it for several players either.  It’s about more than the league table at 5pm.

Win, lose or draw, Manning will be manager at 5pm and he’ll be manager at the start of next season too.

Its what happens between then and the second international break that will really matter.

All you’re trying to do is build up an end of season bog standard championship game into something it isn't.

Where’s all this “acid test”, “big game” etc stuff coming from.  It’s a fairly meaningless end of season game.  Hope we play well, hope we win, but depending on other results, the best we can hope for us to jump up to 11th.  Hardly earth shattering stuff.

50 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

I take it no red button Sky ?

RTV £10 a pop

7 hours ago, extonsred said:

Any streaming?

Available on RTV to domestic and overseas viewers.  £10 for a day pass.

21 minutes ago, cotswoldred2 said:

Public discourse? This forum does not represent anything to do with public, it is a cosy little chatbox for likeminded nay sayers of the club of which you seem to want to be the main windbag instigator.

 

More of an Echo Chamber in my opinion.

1 hour ago, steviestevieneville said:

Bubble , what bubble

The type you get when you fart in the bath.

14 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Let’s wait & see on that.

Today’s result significantly increases the likelihood of Manning being in charge next season & it wouldn’t surprise me at all if he made signing him his number one priority.

You may well be right, but imho Manning’s number one priority should be getting Matty James to sign a one year extension.

Hahahahaha

8 minutes ago, One Team said:

I got “yeah, no”, “on the grass”, “Southampton”, “delivering the actions” ticked off on my bingo card!

What’s the point of following a football team if you can’t enjoy it when they win?

1 hour ago, sglosbcfc said:

Larry Lloyd won more trophies than him surely.

Hapgood won 5 league titles and 2 FA Cups with Arsenal.

Lloyd won 2 League titles, 2 European Cups, a UEFA cup, a European Super Cup and 2 League Cups.

If think it’s fair to say both had illustrious careers.

8 hours ago, 22A said:

Hey Rovers; there'll soon be a ground available at St Andrews!

Birmingham Alabama would be better.

41 minutes ago, cidered abroad said:

I was also at the Chelsea match at Ashton Gate and still have the programme. We got Terry Bush, Jantzen Derrick, Brian Clark and Lou Peters as regular first teams and also Adrian Williams who played only one or two for the first team.

I also was at the Ipswich home game.

Would dearly like to be at Man City. Is it a one or two legs semi final?

One off game.

The final would be at AG in the unlikely event that we win.

14 minutes ago, Red Moseley said:

In tonight's Bristol Post James Piercy says it is the first time that City have reached the FA Youth Cup semi final. This is not true, City lost to Chelsea, the eventual winners, in 1959/60 losing both legs 3 - 0. I attended the home leg as a 12 year old having just moved to Ashton Road by the ground I got 4 autographs of the Chelsea team - Venables, Bonetti, Tambling and Dennis Harkness (I know - who!!!)

As has been previously discussed many times on here, we also lost to Spurs in the semi in 1970 and to Ipswich in the final in 1973.

The crux of the problem is Jon Lansdown.  Nepotism never works.  Lansdown senior needs to get his son out of there, appoint a top of the range CEO and let him run the club unfettered, including the appointment of an experienced Head of Football and possibly a new Head Coach, although I’d give Manning the benefit of the doubt with professional people around to support him.

1 hour ago, Kid in the Riot said:

This is our 40th season spent consecutively in tiers 2 and 3.

21 seasons in tier 2 and 19 in tier 3.

True, but 15 of the last 17 have been in tier 2.

5 minutes ago, harvey54 said:

Waiting for Chelsea to come calling.........

I think Postecoglou would take Antione’s game to the next level.

There’s one born every day.

Not forgetting Tins played a key role in the signing of both Antione and Alex Scott, which consequently netted the club £30 million plus. Transfer income might not matter to the OTIB Taliban, but it puts him in significant credit with SL

4-3 Antione

Kerchang

1 hour ago, Portland Bill said:

Just put the game on my fire stick. They have about 100 there!! 
 

From that photo nearer to 50 than 100.

FT

Cod Army 0 Codswallop 0

43 minutes ago, Roe said:

If Manning has anything about him, he should be considering his own position imo. Imagine working for this lot

You’re clutching at straws, he’s not going to walk away from a contract with more than 3 years to run.

Imagine getting caught sat next to Lee Johnson and Liam Manning on a long haul flight.

5 hours ago, Eddie Hitler said:

Or back in the 1950s and before, when computers weren't setting the fixtures and football was a cheap weekend entertainment for working people such that some would hold a season ticket for both City and Rovers so as to be confident of having a game to watch every Saturday.

Growing up in the 60s I used to go and watch the reserves play in the Football Combination on the Saturdays we were away.   Got in for free most weeks.

49 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

The last four of the FA Youth Cup are Millwall, Leeds, Us and Man City. Better (category one) academy sides have gone out - notably Man U to category 3 Swindon - because those academies prioritise development of their players over a bauble. However, in the past players in the U18s of youth cup finalists have been excellent players - Saka, Reece James, Cole Palmer etc 

This says two things:

- Players in youth cup semis/finals have been good enough to play at a higher level than us if given the chance

- However, teams will generally put the development of the player above the trophy win

So, you’re likely to be wrong on both counts. And that doesn’t mean people don’t want us to win the FA Youth Cup. But it does mean it’s reasonable to question if it’s really the most important thing for the club.

The FA youth Cup is hardly a bauble.  Chelsea, Man U, Man City and Liverpool are all multiple winners.

It would be a huge coup for the club to get to the final, unlikely as it is.

Look at the quality of the goals in the 2nd leg of last year’s final